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CPSL game of Wednesday June 24, 1998.
Here are the results of the CPSL game between Toronto Croatia and North York Astros played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 8:05pm. This was considered a Cup game.
Toronto Croatia (blue socks, white shorts and numbers, red shirts)
.............................................1 Jain Pomogot
2 Peter Ferreira...6 Blair Corcel...3 Steven Warren...5 Daniel Pilas
7 Howard Christie...20 Frano Sain...10 Tomo Granic...17 Sead Kalic
.....................8 Cheslav Zajec....21 Woodrow Norman
Subs:...15 Adam Lee...9 Deney Vogincic...19 Brandan Trtany...14 Sinisa Komcar...22 Chuck Jackson
Team Officials:...Head coach Rudolf Belin...assistant coach Marijan Bilic...trainer Peter Latincic...assistant trainer Ivan Pavicic.
North York Astros (blue socks, shirts, and numbers, yellow shirts)
......................................1 Greg Drakes
..........15 Michael Marshall...3 Rene Martin...6 Kerwin Skeete
7 Gad Espinosa...16 Alessandro Nardi...5 Adrian Moura...2 Andrew Czalij...14 Ednie Tavares
..........................11 Gary DeLeon...13 Ivan Jurisic
Subs:...12 Leslei Szasz (gk)...4 Boris Lopez (def)...10 Steven Colin (fwd)...8 Shawn Long (def)...9 Rohan Scott (mid)
Team Officials:...head coach Jorge Armua...assistant coach Tomas Boljkovac...trainer David DeDonato...physio Ruben Delembert...equipment manager Juan J Zamora.
Officials:...Referee Frank Marcelo...referee's assistants Bruno Coluci and Jakov Kemer, 4th Fernardo Garcia.
Game Starts:...8:05pm on this warm hazy breezy evening.
1st Half:...Croatia defend North end.
20 seconds...NY GOAL...Tavares low 20 yard shot squeezes under diving goalie's chest and trickles into net.
3 min...Croatia goalie stops soft chip shot from 10 yards by NY Tavares.
5 min...NY GOAL...Skeete from 10 yards from far right side of net blasted into top left corner of net.
7 min...NY goalie palms 15 yard freekick from far right wide left to touch.
10 min...NY goalie catches 35 yard lobbed shot.
13 min...Croatia goalie grabs ball touched forward from 5 yards on cross from right.
15 min...NY goalie grabs ball on left edge of box as Croatia Zajec pushes ball too far forward.
17 min...Croatia Granic blasts 20 yard rebound from cross well over net.
21 min...Croatia YELLOW card...Corcel for dissent on referee awarding freekick near midfield.
25 min...NY YELLOW card...Tavares for clutching Croatia Kalic from behind wide right of box.
26 min...Croatia player gets 25 yard shot wide left of post.
28 min...Croatia Corcel blast 20 yard crossed freekick well wide right although Croatia Frano Sain was signalled offside after falling in box.
33 min...NY Moura shot from 15 yards palmed over net.
35 min...NY DeLeon 30 yard shot from far left well over net.
39 min...Croatia Frano Sain 30 yard shot from far left well over net.
40 min...NY goalie steps forward to catch ball bouncing toward Croatia Norman.
41 min...Croatia Ferreira injured near midfield.
43 min...Croatia Zajec 25 yard freekick blast low around wall to right corner. Goalie dives to block it then makes point blank save on Croatia Norman.
45 min...NY DeLeon 15 yard blast hits right goalpost, rebounds off goalie's back but he turns around and stops it.
46 min...Croatia Zajec chips ball from left edge of box over goalie's head but bounces wide right.
47 min...Croatia YELLOW card...Frano Sain near right sideline in NY end. I didn't see why he drew the card.
2nd Half:...started at 9:07pm.
Halftime subs:...Croatia Komcar replaces Frano Sain.
............................Croatia Jackson replaces Ferreira.
50 min...NY goalie catches lazy bouncer from 30 yards.
52 min...Croatia Zajec 35 yard shot caught by goalie.
54 min...Croatia YELLOW card...Zajec near midfield for dissent.
57 min...Croatia Zajec 20 yard shot as he's falling and shot caught by falling.
59 min...NY goalie bobbles than catches hight corner cross from right side in crowd of players.
62 min...NY Tavares pops up ball around defender, then lobs shot from 12 yards wide right of net.
66 min...NY goalie catches hard 30 yard shot slowed by hitting defender when struck.
69 min...Croatia Pilas from left side unchallenged shanks ball wide left.
70 min...Croatia Granic blasts 35 yard freekick well over net.
73 min...NY DeLeon shot from sharp left touch line goes over net.
74 min...Croatia subs...Trtany replace Norman.
.......................................Lee replaces Pilas.
77 min...Croatia YELLOW card...Warren on edge of box. (not sure why).
78 min...Croatia RED card...Corcel (2nd yellow) for dissent in wall.
80 min...Croatia GOAL...Zajec on freekick through hole in four man wall from 25 yards beyond jumping goalie inside left post.
82 min...NY player's 15 yard blast tipped wide for corner.
90 min...NY YELLOW card...Nardi for time wasting on throw in. Only problem with this was it was a teammate who fiddled around then left ball on sidelines for Nardi to throw in.
game ends 93 minutes.
Final Score:..........Toronto Croatia..........1........North York Astros...........2....
Astros had a two goal lead from the 5 minute mark including one soft goal. The Astro goalie got a lot of exercise...by having to fetch the balls that missed the goal and rolled 40 yards into the football endzones. I'd have thought when Croatia was pressing for goals late in the game, they would have a substitute or team official behind the net to hurry and get the ball back in play. Their rally wasn't helped by drawing a red card with 15 minutes of play to go.
Rocket Robin
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